Fairies Anticipating Death? (Carmarthenshire)

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A woman, in Carmarthen Town, protested  to Mr. Charles Winter, of the Parish of Bedwellty,  (who was then at the Academy, and since became  a Preacher of the Gospel) that she heard like the  sound of a company, as it were a burying coming  up from a river, and presently as it were the sound  of a cart coming another way to meet the company,  and the cart seemed to stop while the company  went by, and then went on: soon after a dead  corpse was brought from the river from one of the  vessels, and a cart met the burying, and stopped  till the company passed by; exactly as the woman  heard. Mr. W. was no man to tell an untruth, and  the woman no self-interest to serve by telling an  untruth. The wonder is, how these Spirits can so  particularly fore-show things to come? Either  their knowledge of future things near at hand,  must be very great, or they must have a great influence  to accomplish things as fore-shown. Be it either way, the thing is wonderful ! Of the very minute and particular knowledge of these Spirits in the manner of death and burials. I am now going to give you an account of another remarkable instance, which is as follows: As a certain man was in a field burning turf, he  saw the Fairies coming through the field where he  lay blowing the fire in one of the pits; they went by  him like a burial, imitating the singing of psalms as  they went; one of them leaped over his legs. He  rose up to see where they would go, and followed  them into a field which led into a wood : soon after  a real burying came through that field, and he lay  down by the pit of turf to see what they would do,  and one of the company actually leaped over his legs  in passing by, just as one of the Fairies had done  before; and they sung psalms at the burial as the  Fairies fore-shewed.

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